Doing The Right Thing

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Proverbs 21:21

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 97:10

Life's Tough Lessons

   Have you seen that Movie with Denzel Washington as a football coach at a newly integrated high-school in Virginia back in the 60s? He tells his peer - when we are soft on our kids - we aren't really making their lives better - "We are crippling them".  When our children get out in the real world on their own - no one is going to give a darn about "their feelings or needs".  It's up to us parents to teach and instill the lessons they need to deal with life's challenges.

 Zig Ziglar had a famous line about being hard on yourself often leads to a better life down the road. (Please excuse my simple attempt to paraphrase Zig.) Well, old Zig was right, wasn't he? If we discipline and teach our children well - maybe their lives will be a little easier. Maybe they will be better prepared to handle life's inevitable hardships. 

Love

Do you want more happiness? A great sense of self esteem perhaps? Would you like to develop a fresh, new outlook on life?

Share your Love with others. Anyone. As many others as you can. And just watch how much love you get back! If you want to cultivate love, create harmony in all your feelings and faculties. Remember that all that is pure, holy and virtuous in love flows from the deepest fountain of the human soul.

Most beautiful in morning and evening, but warmest and steadiest at noon. It is the sun of the soul. Life without love is worse than death; a world without a sun. The love which does not lead to labor will soon die out, and the thankfulness which does not embody itself in sacrifices is already changing to gratitude. Love is not ripened in one day, nor in many, nor even in a human lifetime. It is the oneness of soul with soul in appreciation and perfect trust. To be blessed it must rest in that faith in the Divine which underlies every other motion. To be true, it must be eternal as God himself

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Without love there would be no organized households, and, consequently, none of that earnest endeavor for competence and respectability, which is the mainspring to human effort; none of those sweet, softening, restraining and elevating influences of domestic life, which can alone fill the earth with the glory of the Lord and make glad the city of Zion. This love is indeed heaven upon earth; but above would not be heaven without it; where there is not love, there is fear; but, "love casteth out fear." And yet we naturally do offend what we most love.

Love blends your heart in blissful unity, and, for the time, so ignores past ties and affections, as to make willing separation of the son from his father's house, and the daughter from all the sweet endearments of her childhood's home, to go out together and rear for themselves an altar, around which shall cluster all the cares and delights, the anxieties and sympathies, of the family relationship; this love, if pure, unselfish, and discreet, constitutes the chief usefulness and happiness of human life

Merry Christmas

   Dearest Children,

     In the midst of all the gifts and Christmas treats, may you always keep in mind the true meaning of this very special time. May the Good Lord bless you always with a warm place to lay your head and family or friends to love. Merry Christmas!

The First

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2: 8-14

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Twas the Night Before Christmas

A Visit from St. Nicholas

By Clement C. Moore





Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.







The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:




Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too.




And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

The Quick Thinking School Principal

Did you see the story about the 5 or 6 year old who was sent home from school - suspended for the most serious of crimes against one of his classmates?
Yes, it seems this youngster was so smitten with one of the little girls in class - he held her little hand and had the audacity to Kiss Her Right Smack On the Cheek!

One can't help but congratulate the quick-thinking school administrator for promptly suspending this young rule-breaker. Apparently this horrendous atrocity is called sexual harassment in that school. And we can only admire the school board or other administration folks who set forth this policy. Let us give them all big raises and even greater pension plan benefits than they already undoubtedly enjoy.

Or perhaps the good folks in that community could SUSPEND the Administrator(s) for displaying a total and complete lack of common sense. Do you suppose the young criminal's parents were forced to explain the meaning of sexual harassment to their child?